In this exercise adapted from Nelson (2020), we will perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) using air quality index (AQI) data for North Carolina during the Peat Bog Fires of 2008.
Recall that EDA is the process of exploring your data: examining the composition of a dataset, the distributions of individual variables, and relationships between variables. It can help achieve the following goals:
In 2008, burning peat bogs produced haze and air pollution far in excess of national air quality standards in NC (Rappold et al. 2011; Fig. 1).